Wonderful c. 1940s Soviet Folk Art Photo Portrait of a Young Soldier goodall & sons This sweet carved soapstone turtle

This sweet carved soapstone turtle seems to me a wonderful little thing to keep on one's desk or shelf as a reminder to take your time--I really can't imagine a truer embodiment of slowness

) than an hourglass

which evolved into one of the first major highways in the United States

As a perfect final touch

perhaps suggesting bees buzzing around

Wonderful c. 1940s Soviet Folk Art Photo Portrait of a Young Soldier goodall & sons This sweet carved soapstone turtleI've been trying to find something written about folk art Soviet military snapshot portraits of this sort but have turned up nothing. There are other examples out there, which it seems most apt to describe as a form of trench art, since from what I've found they were limited to portraits of soldiers, who decorated the borders around their portraits, as here (those flourishes embedded in the print, not drawn on top.) I really love the effect, executed